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And would it not, in the end, have been a better life? Is it not wrong to squander one’s chance of happiness in order to indulge a talent? Will what I have written survive beyond the grave? Will there be anyone able to comprehend it in a
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“For I will memorize you. Like slaughtered ox meat I will see every piece of you hooked and splayed on the back of my lids.”
― Year of the Rat
― Year of the Rat
“The hand that stocks the drug stores rules the world. Let us start our Republic with a chain of drug stores, a chain of grocery stores, a chain of gas chambers, and a national game. After that, we can write our Constitution.”
― Cat's Cradle
― Cat's Cradle
“I have greatest confidence in my writing when it approaches an insane condition in a sober and unstrained manner.”
― Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers
― Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers
“It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“That has left me with the disorienting suspicion that I’ve always been repeating myself, that my every idea has been from the beginning, that my sense of discovery is merely my endless forgetting who I’ve been.”
― Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers
― Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers
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